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| Shul in MontrealTargeted With Incendiary Device In Arson Attack For Second Time |
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A shul in Montreal’s West Island was the target of a suspected arson attack early Wednesday morning, according to Montreal police (SPVM). Authorities received a 911 call shortly before 3 a.m. reporting a fire on Westpark Street near Roger Pilon Street. The area includes the Beth Tikvah shul, the Hebrew Foundation School, and the Federation CJA’s West Island office. “Firefighters extinguished the blaze,” said SPVM spokesperson Véronique Dubuc. “They found at least one incendiary device.” Witnesses reportedly saw at least one suspect near the scene before the fire began, she added. The damage was described as minor, with a smashed window and a broken door being the primary impact on the synagogue. Police are also investigating activity near the Federation CJA building, but no damage has been observed at that location. No injuries were reported, and no arrests have been made. Investigators remain at the scene to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident. |
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| Russia detains Uzbek man over general’s killing in Moscow |
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Russia’s security service says a 29-year-old man from Uzbekistan has been detained over the killing of senior general Igor Kirillov and his assistant in Moscow. Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces, was outside a residential block early on Tuesday when an explosive device hidden in a scooter was detonated remotely. The Russian security service said the unnamed suspect was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence, according to state media agencies. Ukraine’s security service had already claimed it was behind the killing, a source told the BBC on Tuesday. The Ukrainian source said Kirillov – who was Russia’s chemical weapons chief – was “a legitimate target” and alleged he had carried out war crimes. On Monday, the day before the killing, Ukraine charged Kirillov, 54, in absentia, saying he was “responsible for the mass use of banned chemical weapons”. Russia denies the allegations. The Russian Federal Security Service’s (FSB) public relations centre said on Wednesday the detained 29-year-old was “suspected of committing a terrorist act”. A statement said that during “interrogation he explained that he was recruited by the Ukrainian special services”. |
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| Woman who stowed away on flight from New York to Paris arrested again, prosecutors say |
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A woman who was arrested for stowing away on a flight from New York to Paris has been arrested again, authorities say. Federal prosecutors said that Svetlana Dali, 57, from Russia, was detained in Buffalo, New York, on Monday. Further details on Dali’s arrest have not been released, but a senior official told Sky’s US partner network NBC News the woman allegedly cut off her ankle monitor while she was with her boyfriend. The incident is said to have taken place near Philadelphia before the couple took a Greyhound bus to Buffalo. They allegedly were near the Canadian border when they were arrested. The woman, who is a legal US resident, was first arrested after she evaded security at John F. Kennedy International Airport and flew to Paris as a stowaway on 26 November. A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spokesperson said at the time she managed to get aboard the plane without a ticket and had bypassed two identity checks. |
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| Netanyahu to discuss Gaza deal with top security officials on Thursday |
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to hold a high-level meeting on Thursday with top security officials as efforts to reach a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas appeared to gather momentum, Israeli televion reported Wednesday. Netanyahu’s planned assessment, which will include Defense Minister Israel Katz and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, comes as CIA chief William Burns reportedly arrived in Qatar Wednesday night to try and hammer out the outstanding issues. Channel 12 news said that if there was progress, senior Israeli officials would join the talks. And in a sign of the approaching endgame, Netanyahu has reduced the number of people involved in the negotiating efforts and instructed them not to share any details about the talks, the network said, noting the insistence was out of concern that far-right members of his coalition could step up pressure to torpedo the deal as it nears. Despite optimism that a deal can be reached in the next few weeks, the report said there are still disagreements on several key issues including the number and identity of the hostages to be freed; a mechanism for the return of displaced Gazans to the north of the strip; the identity of the Palestinian security prisoners to be released as part of the deal; and a mechanism for exiling the most dangerous of those prisoners to other countries. The terror group understands that a deal will mean a ceasefire, but not an end to the war, at least in the first phase, said the official, attributing the flexibility to diplomatic and military pressure and Hamas’s isolation. Arab and Israeli officials said Tuesday that the terror group has shown flexibility regarding the terms of an IDF withdrawal from Gaza, indicating it is prepared to allow Israeli troops to remain in the key Philadelphi and Netzarim corridors during the first phase of the deal after long demanding their immediate pullout from those routes. “If Hamas says, ‘Come to a deal now,’ there will be a deal today,” said the official, adding that there are currently “open conversations” among working groups in Qatar. Israel is working through both mediating countries, Qatar and Egypt, because it doesn’t know who will make the final call — Hamas’s leadership abroad, who have resided in Qatar, or the group’s leadership in Gaza, which is closer to Egypt. But despite positive signs, the deal could fall apart, cautioned the official. “They’ve refused every deal that was offered to them in this stage. They could still get cold feet and run away from it.” Hamas officials also indicated Wednesday that there was progress in the talks. The Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen news outlet in Lebanon quoted an unnamed senior Hamas official as saying that there has been considerable progress in the negotiations for a phased hostage release and ceasefire deal with Israel. |
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| Amid truce, IDF destroys underground Hezbollah command center used to direct attacks |
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A tunnel in southern Lebanon that served as a Hezbollah command center was recently demolished by combat engineers, the IDF says. According to the military, the underground facility was used by Hezbollah to direct numerous rocket attacks on Israeli towns in the Galilee in the past year. Troops located weapons, surveillance equipment, and other military gear inside the tunnel, the IDF says. The IDF says several weapons depots were located near the tunnel, including one inside a mosque, where hundreds of explosive devices, guns, grenades, and other equipment were stored. After the tunnel was fully investigated by the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, it was blown up. |
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